{"id":476,"date":"2017-01-28T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-01-28T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T09:45:14","slug":"true-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/true-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"True Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2018<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>True Champions\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It is often stated that true champions differentiate themselves from the others by the way in which they think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">But is there something else needed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As we live or holiday here on the Costa\u2019s we should take a Spanish view of the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In his autobiography, Seve Ballesteros stated that \u201cThere are many good players but they are not champions in their hearts, they do not have it inside to become true champions\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Take a good, long and hard look at yourself, does this describe you and do you only play golf hoping to win with an element of \u2018 Buena Suerte\u2019 or good luck?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">During the 1979 British Open at Royal Lytham, Roberto De Vicenzo spoke the following words to Seve before his victorious final round:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tienes las manos, ahora juega con tu corazon\u201d or you have the hands now play with your heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">So there you have it, to be a true champion you need good technique, talent, patience, desire, mental strength, self-belief and heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">If you aspire to be a true champion you should check yourself against these elements of character required and where you fall short &#8211; do something about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Change something because to continue to do the same things, in the same way and expect different results will only result in failure and frustration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Take action now, you know it makes sense!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018True Champions\u2019 It is often stated that true champions differentiate themselves from the others by the way in which they think. But is there something else needed? As we live<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/true-champions\/\">&#8230;..Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}